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- Hearing loss: shifting gears from the ears to the brain
- Should I take GlyNAC to slow my aging?
- A simple way to calculate your Physiological Age
- Fungi for longevity
- Build your own blue zone
- Strength training: How much for healthy aging?
- Should I take rapamycin to slow my aging?
- Should I take nicotinamide riboside to slow my aging?
- How much protein should I have in my diet?
- Two strategies for population-level healthy aging – implemented in this order
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Hearing loss: shifting gears from the ears to the brain
Everyone knows hearing loss accompanies aging. What most don’t know is that it’s not just about the ears. As we get older, a lot of us still hear sounds just fine, but we find we can’t make out conversations in … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, hearing loss, Lifestyle recommendations, Metformin
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Should I take GlyNAC to slow my aging?
The idea is simple, with aging, levels of the antioxidant metabolite glutathione decline and as a result there’s an increase of oxidative damage and mitochondrial dysfunction (1,2). So in theory you should want to increase the levels of glutathione. The … Continue reading
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Tagged GlyNAC, intervention
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A simple way to calculate your Physiological Age
Tracking your biological age is imperative to understanding your health, how you’re aging, and how your lifestyle or other interventions are helping (or harming) you. Here we provide a tool for users to calculate their PhysiAge scores based on their … Continue reading
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Tagged BioAge, PhysiAge
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Fungi for longevity
Mushrooms might be one of your bets for healthy aging. Why? There are three very clear reasons. Firstly, many mushrooms contain non-digestible carbohydrates that benefit your microbiome (1) (and as we know, preserving your aging microbiome is one of your … Continue reading
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Build your own blue zone
While you think about all the biomedical discoveries emerging in aging research, flying by you in waves of popularity… antioxidants, telomeres, senescent cells, epigenetic reprogramming… it’s easy to get seduced that a magic pill will let you keep your health … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, Blue Zone, Lifestyle recommendations
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Strength training: How much for healthy aging?
I previously discussed considerations of using metformin, rapamycin, and NAD+ boosters to promote healthy aging, and the jury was mixed for all of them. But don’t despair, there is a bullet-proof way to improve aging health: exercise. Here we’ll look … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, Lifestyle recommendations
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Should I take rapamycin to slow my aging?
The aging research world was rocked in 2009 when a study showed that giving old mice a drug called rapamycin could significantly extend their lifespan1. It was quite remarkable because it was the first demonstration that aged animals could still undergo beneficial aging … Continue reading
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Tagged intervention, Medicine, rapamycin
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Should I take nicotinamide riboside to slow my aging?
You may have heard of so called ‘NAD boosters,’ compounds that you can easily buy online like nicotinamide riboside (NR) and others. There’s even a high profile company offering monthly subscriptions to supplements including NR that may boost your NAD levels. … Continue reading
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Tagged intervention, NAD, Product reviews
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How much protein should I have in my diet?
How much protein should you be eating? Research from the biology of aging can help answer that, with just three facts. Fact one: Proteins, and to be more specific, the building blocks of proteins known as amino acids, signal for … Continue reading
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Tagged aging, diet, Lifestyle recommendations, personalize nutrition, protein
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Two strategies for population-level healthy aging – implemented in this order
We should live in a world where everyone has the chance to age healthy. We can get there by investing in the following two strategies and implementing them in this order: (1) Personalized health tracking and advice. Stop using antioxidant supplements, … Continue reading
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